Transcript of an interview with Lady Violet Grace Bourdillon

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS.Brit.Emp.s.475
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1908-1940
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 38 ff.

Scope and Content

Transcript of an interview with Lady Violet Grace Bourdillon on life in India, Iraq, Ceylon, Uganda, Nigeria, 1908-1940.

Administrative / Biographical History

Violet Grace (1886-1979) was the daughter of the Reverend Henry Godwin Billinghurst of Lynch, Sussex, England. In 1909 she married Sir Bernard Henry Bourdillon (1883-1948), colonial governor.

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Collection level description created by Marion Lowman, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.

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Listed as no. 566 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

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